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She said she was looking forward to having a fun and successful meet.
"I don't feel that much pressure because my goals and the coaches' goals are similar." Lavieo said.
Sophomore Arrah Nielsen will run the 1000 meters and the relay.
Nielsen said she's had to keep her mind distracted to avoid feeling some pressure about the meet, but she expected to run well in both events.
"It's like if I have a really hard test, I don't like to think about every possible thing that could go wrong," she said. "I just try to relax and do the very best I can."
The 800 meters could be a fast race this weekend because none of the top runners have an automatic qualifying mark for
the NCAA meet, Lavoie said. She said she hoped they would push each other to those qualifying times.
"After the first couple conference meets, I definitely thought that, because we were back in the back of our heats by quite a ways," she said. "Even scoring was, I think, a distant thought in my mind at that point."
Senior Katy Eisenmenger, who owns the Big 12's top time in the mile and the 1000 meters, will run the mile and anchor the relay.
Eisenmenger said she wouldn't have guessed she would be in this position a couple years ago.
"It's a lot easier to go out there and sav. Heel, I feel good," she said.
She said that racing well eased some of the pain of her weekly long runs on Sunday.
Lavoie said qualifying in the relay would be the most gratifying thing for her this weekend. The team's current time of
"I think we'll have to run about 11:25, which according to coach Clark's calculations, we can do right now," she said. "We're all in better shape and just getting the feel of it."
She said she anticipated running faster heading into this season.
11:32.90 will probably not be fast enough to send them to Fayetteville, Ark., the site of the NCAA Championships.
While she ran between 2:18 and 2:19 last year in the 800, Nielsen improved to 2:13 at this season's Iowa State Invitational.
"I have a better endurance base than I ever have," Nielsen said. "I just felt like I was kind of simmering last year."
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"We have a lot of girls from different sports so they bring a variety of skills," Harper said. "They have also been playing together for a while and therefore they know how to read each other on the field."
Although the team boasts experienced players, six starting positions required replacement.
"We have enough veterans to get us over the hump of the first game. They're great leaders who set a positive example for the new girls. We'll do just fine." Harper said.
The team also suffered a loss of its coach for the second consecutive year. Jim Bartle has taken the reins as new coach.
"Jimmy is experienced and knows the game," said captain Sarah Ratzlaff, Buhler graduate student.
Bartle has been involved with rugby for more than 20 years. He was a KU team captain and has assisted both the men's and women's rugby teams the last few years.
"Overall, we just want to play a lot of good rugby and work our hardest," Ratzlaff said. "Of course we want to win, but I think we'd rather play well and have fun more than anything."
Men's rugby team schedule:
■Feb. 23 and 24 Big 12 Tournament, Norman, Okla
■March 2 K-State A and B teams, HOME
■March 9 Missouri RFC, Columbia, Mo.
March 9 Missouri RFC, Columbia, Mo.
March 30 Blues B队, TEAM
April 6 and 7 St. Louis Ruggerfest Tournament,
St. Louis
■April 13 Truman RFC, Kirksville, Mo.
■April 20 and 21 Omaha Rugby Tournament,
Omaha, Neb.
April 27 and 28 Pittsburgh State A and B teams, HOME
Women's rugby team schedule:
■Feb. 23 Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.
■March 9 Missouri RFC, Columbia, Mo.
■March 30 Kansas State, Manhattan
■April 6 St. Louis Ruggerfest Tournament, St. Louis
April 20 Iowa Tournament, Iowa City, Iowa
April 27 KC Irish and Central Missouri State,
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Americans add five medals
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SALT LAKE CITY — The latest recipe for American medal success: Start with a third generation Olympian winning a gold for his late grandfather. Add a local favorite with multi-hued hair and a gold medal of her own.
The U.S. Olympians continued their unprecedented Salt Lake City roll, riding the skeleton sleds of Jim Shea, Tristan Gale and Lee Ann Parsley to three more medals — and that was just Wednesday morning.
Apolo Anton Ohno captured the ninth gold medal for the United States in men's short-track speedskating Wednesday night.
Jennifer Rodriguez joined the fun, capturing a speedskating bronze in the 1,500 meters — the second bronze of the games for the former in-line skater from Miami. The five medals were the most for the United States in a single day here.
The U.S. team's impressive showing — 26 medals now, including a record nine golds couldn't overshadow the biggest individual star of Salt Lake City: Ole Einar Bjoerndalen of Norway, who became only the third Winter Olympian to win four golds in a single games.
On a snowy day at the skeleton track, the Americans swept medals in both the men's and women's events—the latter punctuated with a silver medal by Parsley in a 1-2 U.S. finish.
in perhaps the most emotional moment of the Olympics, Shea raced with a funeral card of his grandfather inside his helmet — and then waved the card in victory after claiming the gold medal in the first skeleton event since 1948.
About 30 minutes later, Gale — her hair streaked red, white and blue — zipped down her home course to claim an unlikely gold medal. Gale, a Salt Lake City resident, was a competitive alpine skier for 10 years before trying skeleton.
"My grandpa was with me the whole way," said a beaming Shea, whose father and grandfather were both U.S. Olympians.
The Americans stayed second in the medals table with their 26 medals (nine gold, nine silver and eight bronze). Germany remained atop the table with 31 (9-15-7), with Norway in third with 18 (10-6-2).
She had never finished higher than eighth in a World Cup race before collecting the gold. Just one-tenth of a second behind was silver medalist Parsley.
Rodriguez's bronze medal gave the United States eight medals in eight long-track events, equaling the 1980 team as the most prolific in U.S. history.
The U.S. women's Alpine team was about the only American squad not to flourish in Utah, and could finish with no medals for the first time since 1988.
Freshman Serena Settlemier was rewarded for her play in last weekend's UNLV Classic by being named the Big 12 Softball Player of the Week. This is the second week a Kansas player has received the honor. Last week, senior Christi Musser earned the first award of the season.
Kansas pitcher wins Softball Player of Week
Settlemier pitches for the Jayhawks, but won the award for her performance at the plate. She finished with a .600 average for the weekend, including a double, two home runs and six RBI. Settlemier scored four runs during the Classic and had a 1.067 slugging percentage.
During the weekend, Set- tlemier played pitcher, first base and outfield for the Jayhawks.
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Asked if he knew the Korean would be disqualified, Ohno nodded his head and replied "Definitely."
Ohno, who skated with six stitches in his left thigh, dropped to his knees in the center of the rink when the decision was announced. Kim, who already had started a victory lap with a South Korean flag, threw down the banner in disgust.
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Li Jiajun of China won the silver and Marc Gagnon of Canada took the bronze.
Ohno's first attempt at gold ended with him sprawled on the ice in the 1,000, the victim of a crash he didn't cause. He still managed to crawl to the finish, sticking his injured leg over the line to claim the silver behind Australia's Steven Bradbury, the only skater not involved in the melee.
"I wanted to wait as long as possible because I knew there would be a lot of traffic." Ohno said. "I set up the Korean real nice and he came over on me hard."
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In a shocking reversal of his first Olympic misfortune, the 19-year-old American won gold in 1,500-meter short track when South Korean Kim Dongsung was disqualified for blocking Ohno with a half-lap to go.
SALT LAKE CITY — Apolo Anton Ohno crossed the line second again. Only this time, it was good enough for the gold medal.
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